PHILADELPHIA — Judges in state and federal courts in recent weeks have raised questions about whether prosecutors under District Attorney Larry Krasner included incomplete or even misleading information in court documents seeking to remove one man from death row and overturn another man's murder conviction.
The developments — which prosecutors dispute — have offered a degree of pushback to the post-conviction work of Krasner's office, one of the most aggressive offices in the country in seeking to overturn cases it has viewed as flawed or marred by misconduct.
Jane Roh, spokesperson for the District Attorney's Office, defended the office's conduct in each of the two recent cases. And though Krasner did not comment, he has frequently touted the 28 exonerations his office has helped secure as a signature achievement — while casting judicial resistance as an unsurprising byproduct of dealing with those invested in the status quo.
